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A NovelIrish-born Anne Bonny is only a teenager when she is left destitute by her mothers death. Abandoned by her father, she seems destined to be forgotten by the world. But Anne chooses to seek her fortune in the lush tropics of the colonial West Indies, where she passes herself off as a young man named Bonn. She finds work as a ships hand,...

FictionWe are all walking around this city with our hearts sadly swimming in our chests, like dying fish on the surface of a still pond. Its enough to make you give up entirely. from Instant LoveBut we dont give up. We keep trying. Were either too stupid to learn from our mistakes or we honestly believe that the next time will be different; its...

A NovelThe Good Son is the work of an artist in full command, and those of you entering it for the first time can only be envied. From the foreword by Jonathan YardleyChip Mackinnon returns from World War II a changed man. After being shot  down over the desert and imprisoned by the enemy, the world of privilege to which he belongs seems shallow....

A NovelThe poor thing was cold and trembling, abandoned on their front doorstep. Dash, impulsive as always, decides on the spot that they should keep it. But her husband, Andrew, thinks its the craziest thing hes ever heard. A fight over a scruffy little dog doesnt seem like much of a reason to walk out on your husband of twenty yearsbut the spat...

A Novel of SuspenseIn Don Bredess Cold Comfort, Hector Bellevance left Vermont for Harvard, graduated into a job with the Boston Police Department, made detective, married, divorced, accidentally shot his partner during a raid gone bad, and then returned to Vermont because, as Robert Frost famously said, Home is the place where, when you have to go...

A NovelShe's beautiful, writes Irish-American art historian Patricia Dolan in the first of the journal entries that form The Music Lesson. I look at my face in the mirror and it seems far away, less real than hers. The woman she describes is the subject of the stolen Vermeer of the novel's title. Patricia is alone with this exquisite...